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The catch-all page for plot inquiries, NPC threads, investigations, player plots, plot suggestions, and everything else under that banner. Frequency of replies to NPC thread requests will be subject to mod availability, but we will do our best.

INVESTIGATIONS

This is where you come to seek out conversations with NPCs, have your character investigate the setting, or otherwise declare that your character is doing something we should know about. We are open to doing unsolicited NPC call-out threads but reserve the right to cut them short/handwave if they don't seem to be going anywhere or to limit their scope if we are overburdened. NPCs are not always guaranteed to be up for prolonged conversation, but you can try. To attempt to contact an NPC please put their name in the subject line. For conversations of general plot importance, we may ask you to make an closed log.

For investigations, you can freely use this page to have your character seek out information about the characters, setting, or plot. We do ask that you keep investigations to 1-3 inquiries at most, and to have those inquiries be somewhat related. If you want to investigate things that are completely unrelated, please put them in a separate comment. Additionally, please be specific about the approach your character is taking to find out information; their method will greatly impact how well it goes for them.

PLAYER PLOTS

Aion Teleos is designed to be open to player plots, and would be glad to accomodate them! Let us know in a comment below that you/your character is doing and how you'd like to approach it as a player run event. Please put the words "Player Plot" in the subject line.

PLOT SUGGESTIONS

If you don't specifically want to run a plot yourself but have some vague ideas of an event type you think would scratch an itch for the game, please let us know. We don't guarantee we'll use these ideas, but we will keep them in mind when designing future events.

Comments

[aionmods]

Once her intentions turns spiteful, he will feel something in return. Not quite words, but through the language of emotion and intent, he will feel the echo if it again. It accuses him in return of having broken the pact already. If they can't do what the promised, why should it not interfere?

[locumstudentesquire]

At that point he's kind of lashing out in frustration and not really expecting an answer, so getting any kind of impression at all is a bit of a surprise. Less spiteful he'll say it was his understanding that they'd have time to make an effort and prove their point; was that not correct?

[aionmods]

Three are already lost.

You are the only one left, Ryunosuke.

How much more will you force them to endure?

There is a somber tone to its words, as if the entity itself is despairing.

[locumstudentesquire]

Jeez. For a being of Pleroma, this entity sure is a melancholy one.

"That's... Hold on a moment, I'm not forcing anyone to do anything!

...Am I?

...And we don't know that Abel and Himeka are lost! I... I refuse to accept that!"

[aionmods]

He won't accept it, either.

It sounds disappointed.

[locumstudentesquire]

Estinien, he presumes.

He takes a breath. Tries to put himself in a calmer, gentler mindset. But it's hard. He doesn't do gentle, not really. He doesn't do 'calm' very well either. But he knows this thing doesn't respond well to aggression, so he's... He's gonna try.

"Is that why you trapped him here?

...You seem so convinced that you know what's best for him, but have you ever considered you might learn something from him? About bravery? Loyalty? *Persistence?*"

[aionmods]

The answer to his first question is simply 'yes.' It had no desire to conceal that from him. He will feel that intent plainly in the bond between them. The rest, though...

Foreign emotions will rise in his chest. A feeling of unending struggle, of ages of war. Bravery, loyalty, persistence, yes, but with misery and death following it.

I have not surrendered. I will not. I will not. I will not.

The mantra is repeated many more times than that. Cyclical thoughts that always lead to the same conclusion.

...I have found better way...

[locumstudentesquire]

...Alright. So maybe it already knows a thing or two about that stuff and then some.

The rising tide of emotions, invasive and foreign, threatens to knock the wind out of him. Thrown off kilter, overwhelmed by the enormity of its presence, it's hard to get back on track with his line of questioning. He has so many bigger questions he wants to ask. It's hard not to get distracted.

"...Your 'better way' threatens to strip him of everything he is! Whatever you did in Venera, it left him broken. More vulnerable than ever before. I don't... Who ARE you, really? WHAT are you?"

Tehri had suggested this thing was the echo of a powerful Aion, but was that even true? Or was it something bigger? From his end, there's a desperation to connect and understand, muddled by frustration.

[aionmods]

Those cyclical thoughts of blind determination towards it chosen end only intensify, speeding into a fever pitch that becomes more and more like a woman's scream. It doesn't want to think about what he's saying. It can't bear it.

As the scream hits its highest point, it abruptly falls silent, leaving its reverberations echoing throughout Ryunosuke's soul.

[locumstudentesquire]

He pleads with it, tries to get it to calm down, reaching out with his very soul to find some kind of purchase, a point of connection--

"Wait-- Stop, don't go, please--!"

...

...

...

Why... Can't he do anything right?

[aionpcs]

The silence after the scream lingers. Estinien may feel it too, whether he be awake or still sleeping, in the form of a disturbance in the energies of the shrine and its connection to them. Something has shifted, one way or the other.

It's only after there has been a long gap of emptiness between these two points that two two of them will hear a fragile echo of the being's usually strident tone.

...I'm sorry...

It goes silent again.

[locumstudentesquire]

It's hard to reconcile his feelings in this moment; this thing has done immense harm, but it also may have saved their lives back in that storehouse in Venera. He feels guilt for having upset it, but he stubbornly doesn't feel as if he should apologize for speaking what he sees as the truth.

Or, maybe he just feels some kind of kinship... Commiseration with a being that clearly keeps trying to help, but keeps making things worse despite its best intentions. That its myriad of voices had eventually unified into one has also done a great deal to personify it. More than ever, he wonders who it is... Or who it was.

Given the fragility and softness of its voice, he doesn't expect it to answer. He doesn't know if it will even hear him any more. But he thinks at it again anyway:

"An apology is a good start... But it means little if you don't learn from your mistake.

...I hope someday we might still have a proper conversation about it, you and I."